Amadou Mapaté Diagne

Amadou Mapaté Diagne was born in 1886 in Gandiol, near Saint-Louis. He learned French in that city and obtained the brevet supérieur, then Georges Hardy, who directed education in French West Africa, took him into his service in 1915. A schoolteacher, he contributed studies from 1919 to the bulletin of the federation's committee for historical and scientific studies, including one on the wreck plunderers of his native country. Appointed inspector of education in 1942, based in Dakar, he later settled in Sédhiou, in Casamance, where he died in 1976.

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• NarrativeLes Trois Volontés de MalicAmadou Mapaté Diagne · 1920not translated into EnglishLiterature